Show Kamas Native Celebrates Birthday I Sophia Workman Has Descendants COALVILLE COALVILLE- I Life began beganI at nt 65 for Mrs Sophia Workman who was celebrating celebrating cele cele- brating her birthday Jn In er City pity Saturday with members of ot her faintly family Self Educated Mrs Workman taught herself to to read write and play the harmonica harmonica har har- monica at 65 65 Grandma Phi as she la Is affectionately called was born in a room one-room log cabin with a dirt roof root and floor noor in Kamas on March 10 1867 She was waa the daughter of ot William Wit Wil liam tiara O. O and Elsie Erickson Anderson An derson demon early pioneers to Utah She mauled Hyrum 1 P. P Workman in July 1884 They were the I I parents of 10 children Mr Workman Workman Work Work- man died in 1929 I Learned Trapping At two years yeara of age Mrs j I Workmans Workman's family moved from Parleys Parley's Park to a place called The Fhe Way Half House where freighters and trappers stopped for supplies said Mrs Vera Reed a granddaughter As a young girl bere here little Sophia earned money by trapping beaver fox mink and j other animals I 1 remember taking as many as eight different animal skins in a single catch said Mrs Mm Workman Killing Illig them was the tho biggest I problem since all I had to use was wasa a big aUck she eho said eald Traps Ju just t weren't as gOO good as aa they are now She herded cattle and sheep heep I alone in tn the hills bills during the sum sum- summer sum sum-I mer In her leisure time she Bhe helped her father ather in fn his shoe Ishop j I shop I At tt 65 she abe cared for tor her two young grandsons while they attended attended at I tended school choo h ol The boys boy helped helped her learn tean to read and write since vines she bad had never been to school She later used this skill to cor respond with servicemen overseas during World Worle War H fl nand and the Korean Koran War said aid Mr Mra loin Reed I Grandma al o learned to pl pia play y the harmonica well welt enough to perform at public gatherings at this time commented Mrs Reed Children ren Living Mrs Workman has descendants descend ants including grand great children Her lIer sons and daughters who are arenow arenow arenow now living are Lawrence and Myrl fyrl Workman of Preston Idabo Idaho Ida Ida- I ho bo Mrs Estus Packer Ora Riverdale Idaho J Mrs Mra Alma Smith Phyllis Lewiston Utah Mrs Leatha Seybolt Salt Lake City a and d Mrs Pearl Atkinson Kamas |